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If the Gasroom is an army barracks, @micra is the well respected sergeant who takes you to one side to explain that it pains him to say it, but your Ps and Qs are not minded quite properly, and, to quote a country song, "I know you've been using a c…

@micra - I remembered them having issues back in the 1990s, but I always get them muddled with Aldershot, and also a little muddled as to whether the new club kept the history of the old one (Darlington have this effect too).

@micra - per the wonders of Wikipedia, "Maidstone United Football Club is a professional English football club based in Maidstone, Kent. They currently compete in the National League, the fifth tier of English football. The current club filled the v…

@mooneyman said:
@Shev said:
That's the thing - things are not static with football, but always moving in a certain direction, and reading the tea leaves does not take too much insight as to where it is all headed.
Though…

@Wendoverman said:
sad though the point deductions may be...a small club running on empty who failed to sign Dave Tarpey yet again might feel slightly more optimistic about another league one survival campaign. If (God Forbid) both clubs failed t…

That's the thing - things are not static with football, but always moving in a certain direction, and reading the tea leaves does not take too much insight as to where it is all headed.
Though we are poor, it once again shows the prudence of that…

@bookertease - it really has been quite the fall - Luton and Oxford also both won the League Cup in the 1980s, back when everyone played their first teams all the way through (if I remember correctly). That makes it even more notable.